Time domain reflectometers

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Time domain reflectometers are used to determine the characteristics of electrical or optical transmission lines by observing reflected pulses.

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Documents Referencing Time domain reflectometers

Document Class Title Authors Year Links
Service Scope 38 Jun 1966.pdf Article Tektronix Type 1S2 Makes Reflectometry Easy 1966
Service Scope 45 Aug 1967.pdf Article Time-Domain Reflectometry Theory and the Testing of Coaxial Transmission Lines 1967
062-1244-00.pdf Book Measurement Concepts: Time-Domain Reflectometry Measurements James A. Strickland H. Allen Zimmerman Gordon Long George Frye 1969

Patents that may apply to Time domain reflectometers

Page Title Inventors Filing date Grant date Links
Patent US 3434049A Time domain reflectometry system having a current source for locating discontinuities in a transmission line George Frye 1965-12-06 1969-03-18
Patent US 4755742A Dual channel time domain reflectometer Agoston Agoston John Rettig Stan Kaveckis John E. Carlson Andrew E. Finkbeiner 1986-04-30 1988-07-05
Patent US 4743753A Method and apparatus for carrying out fiber optic time domain reflectomery wherein Golay complementary sequences are applied John Cheng Jeffrey H. Goll J. Nelson Edwards 1986-09-05 1988-05-10
Patent US 4989971A Automatic mask trigger for an optical time domain reflectometer Kevin B. McDonald 1989-07-14 1991-02-05
Patent US 6437578B1 Cable loss correction of distance to fault and time domain reflectometer measurements Linley Gumm 2000-11-14 2002-08-20